Limpkins (aramus guarauna) Pg1, are savvy in extracting the flesh from shells of apple
snails, their prefered food. Here a trophy size snatch is being rushed to hungry chicks.
<medium close-up photo by Wolf P. Weber of a Limpkin with a very large apple snail in its beak.>

Notice the spike-like claws that form the rather oversized feet
of the Limpkin. They certainly come in handy.
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